[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Fedor Steeman]

> Dunno if it'll work, depends if your drive is jumpered (or jumperable), to

> have a Disk change signal on Pin 34, which is what IIRC PCs expect.

> Also depends on what the drive is (no tracks & sides), and how old the PC

> you are going to attach it to is.


The drives are jumperable and they look like they could be used for
(earlier) PCs as well, so I have my hopes up...


> Kind of. I keep an old 386 with MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 for this and it works

> fine - almost. But anything over that may not work.


I have a 5-year old DELL, Pentium 4, with Windows XP, so that may be
way too advanced... Or not?


> Sometimes I have to format the floppy on the PC, copy the files to it on the

> Coco and then read it on the PC.


Well, my earlier set up involved a Coco with a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive,
and then I would copy stuff over to the 3,5" drive. I was looking into
a possibility that was less tedious, so if I could just pop in the
diskettes directly into to the PC that would it lower the threshold
for me a lot for this actitvity.

Cheers,
Fedor


2008/10/5 Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at gmail.com>:

>

> Kind of. I keep an old 386 with MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 for this and it works

> fine - almost. But anything over that may not work.

>

> Sometimes I have to format the floppy on the PC, copy the files to it on the

> Coco and then read it on the PC.

>

> Neil

>

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>

>

>

>> I want to try to put a 5,25" floppy drive that normally is hooked up

>> to a CoCo to my Windows PC, so I can salvage a huge library of

>> hundreds of floppies.

>>

>> Is this entirely possible? Any tips/hints/suggestions?

>>

>> Thnx,

>> Fedor

>

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